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What is LEQ? Is that like the essay thing? We call it FRQ here. :P
Yeah they are generally so hard, mainly because it's hard for me to word stuff together and the FRQs are generally about something I just glimpse over because I thought it wasn't important. <.<
and yeah. i hate them and dbqs. dbqs are nice because you automatically have ≈10 sources to work with, but it's annoying to have to come with other sources to use.
You're smarter than me in APUSH and I did well on mine. You should do well!